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Manuscript calendar page with Hebrew letters in squares, decorated with illustrations of birds and flowers, with castle at the top and dragon at the bottom.

Foldout Calendar

This foldout calendar is a beautifully illuminated feature that appears in a sefer ‘evronot. Works of this genre were Jewish calendar handbooks for calculating the dates of religious holidays and…

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From Christianity to Judaism: The Story of Isaac Orobio de Castro

The life and literary undertakings of Isaac Orobio de Castro are symbolic of the fate and fortunes of the Spanish and Portuguese Sephardi diaspora in seventeenth-century western Europe. His passage…

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Illustration of nude woman embraced by clothed, turbaned man, surrounded by border of geometric shapes, animals, cityscapes, and plants, and Hebrew text on the bottom.

Illustrations to Song of Songs (4:1–6)

There have traditionally been two different interpretations of the biblical Song of Songs. It can be read as an erotic love poem or as a poem of yearning for the Land of Israel. Ze’ev Raban’s…

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